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Index 



Potatoes as culture media, 204 



Potato-juice as culture media, 205 



Precipitate, specific, 127 



Precipitation, specific, 127" 



Predisposition, 82 



Preparations, adhesive, 223 



Prescott and Winslow's method 

 of preparing litmus, 206 



Prior and Finkler's spirillum, 510 



Prodigiosus powder, 533 



Proteids, defensive, 109 



Proteus infection, 668 



Protozoa and hydrophobia, 470 



Pseudodiphtheria bacillus, 487, 



488, 492 



differentiation of, from Bacil- 

 lus diphtheriae, 487, 493 



Pseudodysentery bacillus, 580 



Pseudoglanders bacillus, 419 



Pseudomonas, 37 



Pseudotetanus bacillus, 464 



Pseudotuberculosis, 396 



Psittacosis, 564 



Ptomains, 49, 50 

 definition of, 49 

 table of, 48 



Pulex irritans, 634 



Pure culture, 209, 219 



special methods of securing, 

 223 



Pustule, malignant, 530 



Putrefaction, 21, 49 



Putrefactive ferment, 25 



Pyemia, 75 



Pyocyanase, 58, 308 



Pyocyanin, 307 



Pyocyanolysin, 308 



Pyoktanin, 174 



QUANTITATIVE estimation of bac- 

 teria in air, Hesse's 

 method, 250 

 Petri's method, 251 

 Sedgwick's method, 252 

 Quarter-evil, 653 



RABIES, 465. See also Hydro- 

 phobia. 

 Rauschbrand, 653 



stations, 657 

 Ravenel's method of preparation 



of agar-agar, 200 

 potato cutter, 205 

 Ray-fungi, 431 

 Reaction, Calmette's ophthalmo- 



tuberculin, 378, 379 

 influence on growth of bacteria, 

 4 1 



Reaction, Ligniere's cuti-tubercu- 



lin, 378 

 von Pirquet's dermo-tuberculin, 



378 

 Widal, 130, 558. See also Widal 



reaction. 

 Reagents, determining germicidal 



value of, 270 

 Receptors, 113 

 Refined tuberculin, 376 

 Reichel's filter, 181 

 Relapsing fever, 618 



bacteriologic diagnosis, 624 



immunity to, 624 



lesions of, 623 

 Remy's method of cultivation of 



typhoid bacillus, 540 

 Respiratory apparatus, infection 



through, 68 

 tract as avenue of infection for 



tubercle bacillus, 365 

 Retention theory, 106 

 Rhipicephalus decoloratus, 618 

 Rhinoscleroma, 448 

 Rice-water discharges of cholera, 



54 



Rideal and Walker's method of 

 testing germicidal value of solu- 

 tions, 271 



Rontgen rays, influence on growth 

 of bacteria, 42 



Rossi's method of staining flagella, 

 171 



Rost's method of cultivating lepra 

 bacillus, 403 



Rothberger's method of cultiva- 

 tion of typhoid bacillus, 542 



Rouget du pore, 614 



Roux's syringe, 236 



Rubber stoppers, sterilization, 176 



SALIVA, bactericidal action of, 64 

 Salkowski's nitroso-indol reaction, 



54 



test for indol, 54 

 Salomonsen's method of making 



anaerobic cultures, 233 

 Sanarelli's bacillus, 584 

 Sapremia, 75 

 Saprogens, 47 

 Saprophytic bacteria, 60 

 Sarcina, 36 



ventriculi, 65 

 Scarlatina, streptococci in blood 



in, 300 



Schaumorgane, 667 

 Schmitter and Nichol's method of 



making anaerobic cultures, 230 



